Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:05:34 +0000
100% renewables for 143 countries covering 99.7% of global energy carbon emissions is very inexpensive compared to business as usual in Jacobson’s latest
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:02:30 +0000
“Seven Challenges for Energy Transformation 2019,” a report by Rocky Mountain Institute, was launched during three connected international events in Delhi, Beijing, and New York that convened the world’s leading energy stakeholders and catalysts to kickstart a global effort to accelerate the energy transition and mitigate the climate crisis
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:40:46 +0000
The Homer Electric Association is a cooperative that serves customers who live south of Anchorage, Alaska. It is installing a 93 MWh energy storage battery supplied by Tesla.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:25:58 +0000
Democratic candidates for President should elevate pumped storage hydro into a coal-country vote winner as well as a climate change winner
Credit to Author: Winter Wilson| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:48:32 +0000
In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan is back again with Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc and CleanTechnica contributor, to talk about one solution to current energy storage limitations: closed-loop pump storage hydropower
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 01:24:53 +0000
The most popular CleanTechnica stories last week included fun content about an off-grid month with SunPower solar panels + Tesla Powerwalls, the just-beginning economies of scale Tesla is getting from its gigafactories, a pitch for Elon Musk’s The Boring Company getting into pumped hydro, Tesla dominating US electric vehicle sales, and much more. Scroll down for the headlines and click through to the ones that tickle your fancy!
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 01:08:40 +0000
Pumped hydro is a highly viable storage technology, it overlaps nicely with the characteristics of Tesla’s existing battery technology, the Boring Company has high-speed tunneling equipment suitable for penstocks and there are a lot of excellent coal miners who could be repurposed close to home in the United States
Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:47:18 +0000
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Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:25:28 +0000
With the gigantic Fengning pumped hydro storage project nearing completion, China is on pace to have 40 GW of pumped hydro storage on tap soon, more than any other country in the world.